Mass Effect Producer Asks Fans: “Should The Next Game Be A Prequel?”

In the latest of a series of attempts to gauge fan opinion on the future direction of the Mass Effect series, BioWare’s Casey Hudson has taken to Twitter to see whether gamers would prefer the next game to be a sequel or a prequel.
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No. Prequels are the lazy-writer's copout. "I can't think of new material, so I'll just show you some stuff that you already know is gonna happen! But I'll add a few peripheral characters and cameos for the lore hounds. Best part, is that I don't even need to write an ending, cause, you know..."

@thorstein I have also thought about a mercenary or something similar. Will you have a conscience? Will you take any contract? Also you obtain weapons by either scavenging them from a fight, or spend hard earned money on more exotic and powerful guns, armor, maybe ship upgrades or something. That would definitely be a great concept :)

Why does there have to be a next one? Why cant a developer be happy with a trilogy and then move on? There nothing wrong with making a new series in the same game world with a different name perhaps but developers are getting lazy these days and milking games too much and its why crap like IAP etc are getting more power in the market as people are losing interest.

after me3, i see no reason to continue the franchise. bioware wants to listen to feedback, i think that is full of shit. after lying about what they promise to add on me3, i don't believe the fact they want feedback.

Fifa, NHL, Football etc. All games I buy every year simply because EA makes the best NHL, Soccer and Football games available on the market...(well there is no competition for Football so I don't really have anything to compare it against that has an NFL license)

I would LOVE another Dante's Inferno. Can't wait for Dead Space 3 as well.

I don't agree with that. Additions may have been added but but story, enemies the lore...all Dead Space. I don't play a game just for it's control mechanics. All shooters have the same control mechanics. All RTS games have the same control mechanics. Suddenly Dead Space 3 is a rip off of Gears? Quantum Theory is a rip off to Gears. Not Dead Space.

"dante inferno is a completely god of war rip off."

It's similar no doubt, but I don't hear you complaining about PS Allstars.

"this game got good scores except gamespot which was reviewed by a lame nab nobody like and doesnt have a single clue about fighting games" http://n4g.com/news/1124541...

In FACT you seem to be supporting it, but yet frown upon Dante's Inferno. Again, it's a hack n slash so there are going to be similar game controls. I have played ALL of the God of War games and have the HD collectors edition. I still think GoW2 is the best out of the 3 and I enjoyed Dante's Inferno's story over GoW3's.

"i wait for the king of the genre which is god of war prequel"

What are you talking about? What do you mean wait? Are you saying that you didn't play Dante's Inferno? It came out like 3 years ago. You make no sense on saying you will wait for the new GoW game. You didn't even know it existed until last year, so why would you have passed up on a game released 3 years ago to "wait" for a game that wouldn't have even been announced till 2 years later?

"as for survival....the amnesia games are out there and the new one is in dev,project zwei and the last of us is all i need when it comes to survival."

Why are you off topic? Why are you mentioning Playstation games in a conversation about EA? Are you so insecure with your purchase that you have to advertise Sony's games in an EA article?

I am more in favor of moving the galaxy forward, as opposed to going back. I would like to see the Mass Effect galaxy possibly interact with neighboring galaxies in the next game. Introduce new species not only in the Milky Way, but in the Andromeda and others as well. Expand the scope. Hopefully that will be possible on the next gen systems. An intergalactic story would be tremendously entertaining. The possibilities for Mass Effect are endless. Whatever direction they choose to go, I will be taking the journey.